For three years before I moved out of our Somerville house in September 2006, my wife and I argued about fights she had with our 9-year-old son. One example: A month before...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A passenger train slammed into a bus at a rural Argentine rail crossing before dawn Sunday, killing 18 people and leaving at least 47 others injured, authorities said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 1:01 pm
A passenger train slammed into a bus at a rural Argentine rail crossing before dawn Sunday, killing 18 people and leaving at least 47 others injured, authorities said. The bus was... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 1:01 pm
AP - Nearly two years after taking control of Congress, the Democrats have claimed another prize by capturing former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat a development that Republicans say is not a harbinger of things to come.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved new construction in a West Bank settlement outside Jerusalem, a Construction Ministry official said Sunday, just days after a Palestinian man killed eight Israelis at a religious seminary.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:58 pm
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved new construction in a West Bank settlement outside Jerusalem, a Construction Ministry official said Sunday, just days after a Palestinian man killed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:58 pm
AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved new construction in a West Bank settlement outside Jerusalem, a Construction Ministry official said Sunday, just days after a Palestinian man killed eight Israelis at a religious seminary.
AP - Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
Health experts are turning more and more to group therapy to help troubled tweens defeat troubling levels of pot and booze addictions.
The number of 12- and 13-year-olds...
The good news for Ed Kelly, relentless president of Boston Firefighters Local 718, is that at least Anthony Gaston did not run into a burning building . . . stoned.
The...
FORT MYERS - Red Sox ace Josh Beckett has a back problem, and right now, nobody is sure just how serious it is.
The Red Sox do not know if Beckett will be able to make...
BHURBAN (AFP) -
Pakistan's
two major opposition leaders signed a formal declaration
Sunday on forming a coalition government, and urged
President Pervez Musharraf to convene parliament without delay. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:51 pm
However you feel about electric cars and the environment, you can't ignore 700+ bhp and 0-60 in 4.0 seconds, which is the plan for the Lightning GT sport model. If every electric car in the future looks like this I won't be complaining! Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:50 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama beat rival Hillary Clinton in Wyoming's nominating contest on Saturday, bouncing back from a string of losses that gave Clinton new life in their hotly contested presidential battle.
The leaders of the two parties that won Pakistan's elections reportedly sign an agreement a coalition government. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:49 pm
(Kyodo) _ The co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party said Sunday the future of disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan would be decided by the Pakistan Army. Addressing a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:46 pm
MADRID (AFP) -
Spaniards
voted in an election Sunday that could give the Socialist
prime minister a new mandate to pursue sweeping social
reforms, but with the country still stunned by the killing
of an ex-politican by suspected Basque separatists. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:45 pm
The first of tens of thousands of refugees from Bhutan begin leaving camps in Nepal for a new life in the West. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:41 pm
Clinton's path to the nomination, then, involves these steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (while cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) & then win a contested convention by persuading party elites to override the voters. Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:40 pm
It really is a civil war in the Democratic party now. The party is rent between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, between hacks and moonbats, between those who work with their...
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:38 pm
AP - Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday.
AFP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama trounced rival Hillary Clinton in Wyoming caucuses, but the two candidates continued Sunday their pitched battle for every nominating delegate.
BHURBAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's election winners sealed an agreement Sunday to form a coalition government and said parliament will restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf - further clouding the U.S.-allied leader's political future.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:32 pm
Pakistan's election winners sealed an agreement Sunday to form a coalition government and said parliament will restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf _ further clouding the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:31 pm
Reuters - Spain's voters looked likely to return
the ruling Socialist Party to power on Sunday in an election
unlikely to produce an absolute majority.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's voters looked likely to return the ruling Socialist Party to power on Sunday in an election unlikely to produce an absolute majority.
BEIJING (AFP) -
Suspected
"terrorists" killed in a raid in northwest China's
Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region earlier this year had been
planning an attack on the Olympics, a top official said Sunday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:27 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian authorities said on Sunday they were treating the death of a British girl as murder after a second autopsy revealed injuries that officials said were homicidal... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:25 pm
Chinese officials say they have foiled two plans, one to attack the Olympics and another to crash an airliner. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:23 pm
A new post-mortem examination of the body of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling concludes she was murdered. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:21 pm
Chinese police captured and killed alleged Islamic terrorists plotting attacks targeting the Beijing Olympic Games, a senior Communist Party official said Sunday.
BHURBAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday he would join the late Benazir Bhutto's party in a coalition government. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:14 pm
Bay Staters and state and local officials are still on high alert today for flooded rivers, roadways and basements after yesterday's rainstorm and melting snow prompted...
BERLIN (AFP) -
A German
rail union on Sunday warned it could harm the economy with
indefinite strikes as last-ditch talks to avert a stoppage
got underway. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:11 pm
The military is upset that Google has posted snapshots of sensitive government locations on the Internet, but Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina may have a beef of his own...
Putting a time stamp on someone's life,...is something that few doctors are willing to do. Instead, they employ much more methodical and caring techniques of breaking the news to terminally ill patients...."Shock or denial is a pretty universal first reaction. Patients say 'it's not me' or 'I'll go to a different doctor.'" Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:04 pm
In 1996 a number of companies were looking to standardize the industry around a short-range radio link for doing a number of things which seem obvious today (not so obvious in 1996). Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:59 am
This lion pounced on Kate Drew from behind and dragged her to the ground, sinking its teeth into the back of her neck... as two more came to dine. Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
A train slammed into a bus at a rural Argentine rail crossing early Sunday, killing 18 people and leaving at least 47 others injured, authorities said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
"A Flipbook on China" celebrates 60 years of observing the changes in China, as documented in Magnum's living archive. More information about the festival can be found on the FotoFest Web site. Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:56 am
Whites remain much more likely than nonwhites to receive narcotics for pain treatment at hospital emergency rooms, new data shows, and Boston-area patients and physicians...
Jaber Elbaneh, a Yemeni-American who is among the FBI's most wanted terrorism suspects, attends a session of the trial for him and 22 others charged in connection with a series of attacks on oil facilities... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
Bay State students are reeling in the wake of news that the hard, expensive slog of higher education may get even harder thanks to economic threats to the student loan business.
...
A bionic device the size of a pencil eraser - the labor of 20 years for a group of visionary Hub doctors and scientists - is offering hope that some forms of blindness could...
Migrants arrive on Las Vistas beach on the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain, Sunday March. 9 2008. The boat carried 78 of the would be migrants. Spaniards started voting in a general election Sunday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:47 am
Preeti, a pooch of the Chinese Crested breed, is preened by her owner before being shown at Crufts 2008, the world's largest dog show, in Birmingham, England. Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:46 am
"We've got a state dinosaur, a state frog, a state reptile, a state flower, a state nut, but no one has given a thought to a company that's been in Missouri for many, many years and is bringing prosperity to our state and manufacturing a product in our state that many people enjoy," Dougherty said. Source: Digg | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
Jean Sarkozy, the son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a member of the Conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) candidate for the Cantonal elections in the Hauts de Seine, leaves a voting... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:29 am
CASPER (AFP) -
Democratic
presidential hopeful Barack Obama trounced rival Hillary
Clinton in Wyoming caucuses, but the two candidates
continued Sunday their pitched battle for every nominating delegate. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:29 am
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed into law a bill giving local owners the right to take majority control of foreign companies, including mines and banks, a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:28 am
South Africa hammer Bangladesh by nine wickets in the first one-day international in Chittagong. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
Reuters - A British company has developed a camera
that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under
people's clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a
breakthrough for the security industry. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
LONDON (Reuters) - A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.
Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
Spain Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his wife Sonsoles Espinosa votes in Madrid, Sunday March 9, 2008. Spaniards started voting in a general election Sunday, after a divisive campaign... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:10 am
AFP - The European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station.
AP - Snow plows and clean-up crews were to continue working overtime Sunday to dig out of a record-setting snow storm that buried Ohio's capital city and many parts of Ohio and Indiana.
(Kyodo) _ The principal of a Kawaguchi municipal government-run high school in Saitama Prefecture was arrested Saturday on suspicion of threatening a woman who tried to break up with him, Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 11:06 am
AP - Danny Green had 18 points and top-ranked North Carolina scored the final 10 points of its 76-68 victory over No. 6 Duke on Saturday night to give the Tar Heels the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title.
A woman looks at official posters for the upcoming local elections, on March 6, in Strasbourg. Sunday, French voters are choosing the mayors and local councillors of 36,000 towns, including 235 with more... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:58 am
China says there are many more workers than jobs available but there is still a shortage of skilled workers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:47 am
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia's ruling coalition rallied behind the prime minister Sunday, while his spokeswoman said he would not resign despite unprecedented electoral losses that gave the opposition control of one-third of the Parliament.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's premier has no plan to step down after leading his ruling coalition to its worst election result in decades in which the opposition Islamists and reformists won control of five of the nation's 13 states.
Police captured and killed alleged terrorists plotting attacks targeting this year's Beijing Olympics, a Chinese official said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:25 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran is ready to negotiate with Europe over its nuclear program if there were practical results, the Islamic republic's foreign minister said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:13 am
Iran is ready to negotiate with Europe over its nuclear program if there were practical results, the Islamic republic's foreign minister said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:13 am
A storm that dumped a tremendous amount of snow on the Ohio Valley and western New England was expected on Sunday to race out of the Northeast, allowing snowfall to gradually diminish in the region throughout the day. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
A China Southern Airlines passenger jet comes in for a landing at Beijing airport in this Aug. 2, 2006, file photo. A flight crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a plane from this airline last week,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:06 am
Spaniards started voting in a general election Sunday, after a divisive campaign dominated by economic concerns and jolted by the killing of a Socialist politician blamed on Basque separatists. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 10:02 am
A thrift store worker in Southern California says she didn't think twice about returning $30,000 she found in donated clothing. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:58 am
Storms sweep the US Midwest, dumping a record snowfall, and disrupting flights and other services. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:53 am
For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy? Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:53 am
A flight crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner last week, an official said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:48 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A moderate earthquake and several aftershocks rattled a remote area in eastern Iran on Sunday morning, cracking walls and forcing some to seek shelter in tents, state media reported. No injuries were immediately reported.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:46 am
A moderate earthquake and several aftershocks rattled a remote area in eastern Iran on Sunday morning, cracking walls and forcing some to seek shelter in tents, state media reported. No injuries were immediately reported. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:46 am
Doctors who conducted a fresh autopsy on a British teenager found dead on a
beach in the Indian resort of Goa believe she was murdered, officials said. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- South America moved away from talk of war as the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Colombian cross-border raid with testy handshakes and an apology.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:42 am
BEIJING (AP) -- Food poisoning deaths in China rose by about one-third in 2007, the state-run news agency reported Sunday amid ongoing scrutiny over the safety of the country's food production chain.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:33 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI has begun a criminal inquiry into the largest U.S. mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial Corp, for suspected securities fraud as part of investigations into the mortgage crisis, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
Women walk over a bed of hot coals with bare feet as they participate in the annual fire-walking festival to mark the upcoming spring at the foot of Mount Takao in Hachioji, northwestern Tokyo, Japan,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:11 am
Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says he will not step down, despite a poor election result. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 9:08 am
Taiwan's presidential candidates, Ma Ying-jeou, left, of the opposition Kuomintang and rival Frank Hsieh of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, shake hands prior to a televised debate in Taipei Sunday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 8:44 am
KOUROU (AFP) -
The
European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden
launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous
automatically with the orbital space station. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 8:24 am
Tibetans living in Taiwan and Taiwanese supporters protest against human rights violations by Chinese in Tibet, Sunday, March 9, 2008, in Taipei. The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in 1959 following a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 8:21 am
Police find the bodies in an orchard. Locals suspect that Shiite militia fighters buried Sunni victims there.
Mystery and dread shrouded a freshly discovered mass grave site filled with the remains of at least 50 and perhaps as many as 100 people, some of them children, in a river valley north of here.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's top religious authority warned Saudis against giving money to "evil" organizations, a newspaper considered close to the government reported Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 9 Mar 2008 | 7:53 am
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez makes a direct appeal to Colombia's Farc to free hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 9 Mar 2008 | 7:34 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Democrat captured on Saturday an Illinois U.S. House of Representatives seat that had been a Republican stronghold, in a symbolic blow to President George W. Bush's party ahead of November elections.
Somali-born model and former James Bond girl Waris Dirie apologized Saturday for her surprise three-day disappearance, which led to a nationwide police search for her.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian archaeologists believe they have found the grave of the country's legendary outlaw, Ned Kelly, on the site of an abandoned prison.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush donned a cowboy hat and sang an early goodbye to Washington on Saturday night with a performance that lampooned White House journalists and Vice President Dick Cheney among others.
ANTANANARIVO - The death toll from Cyclone Ivan in Madagascar has risen to 93 people, while the total number of homeless is 332,391, a statement from the National Office for Disaster and Risk Management said.
The European Union... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
President Bush said an early farewell to political Washington on Saturday night, making his first appearance on the stage of the Gridiron Club of Washington journalists. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 9 Mar 2008 | 4:59 am
State legislators passed a law Saturday that would require adults who French kiss a child younger than 13 to register as a sex offender. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 9 Mar 2008 | 4:52 am
Chinese police released a noted civil rights lawyer Saturday, but he said they warned him to keep quiet about his more than 40 hours in custody. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 9 Mar 2008 | 4:31 am
Paraguayan actress Katya Garcia, right bottom, performs during the International Women's Day celebrations at Asuncion's women's jail, Saturday, March 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 9 Mar 2008 | 4:08 am
The International Whaling Commission has accused campaigners protesting against Japan's whaling fleet of creating danger in the Antarctic Ocean. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 9 Mar 2008 | 3:56 am
A suspected robber was arrested and charged with capital murder in the abduction and shooting death of an Auburn University student, police announced Saturday.
The brother of one of the six people killed in Memphis earlier this week has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 9 Mar 2008 | 3:39 am
A Democrat maintained a solid lead Saturday in a special election to fill former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat in a contest closely watched because of the possibility the longtime GOP district could change hands.
BRUSSELS (AFP) -
The euro's
record-breaking run on foreign exchange markets is fuelling
calls for a political counterweight to the European Central
Bank, increasingly seen as indifferent to the currency's strength. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 9 Mar 2008 | 2:49 am
Thousands of Afghans demonstrated Saturday in western Afghanistan, shouting angry slogans against Denmark and the Netherlands for alleged insults against Islam.
Alexander Litvinenko's widow hopes the Russian leader will take action over his murder, writes David Harrison. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Baroness Thatcher returned home only 15 hours after a health scare saw her taken to hospital. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Thousands of Americans working in Britain will escape the worst effects of a tax crackdown on non-domiciles to be unveiled in the Budget this week, The Telegraph has learned. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Barack Obama has won a convincing victory in the Wyoming caucuses, a welcome boost for the Democratic White House frontrunner after a week in which questions were raised about his ability to seal the nomination. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Military chiefs, MPs and families of Britain's war dead have called on the Government to recognise the contribution made by servicemen and women with the creation of an "Armed Forces Day". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
THE cost of family cars is set to rise under plans for a new “showroom tax” to
be unveiled in this week’s budget. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
The Hamas commander was in a hurry. Hunched forward in a navy-blue parka, with
the wind-chapped skin and drawn eyes of someone who had been outdoors all
night, he had just returned from the front line with Israel. The whine of
drones overhead signalled that his enemy was hunting for blood. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
THE airports operator BAA colluded with government officials to “fix” the
evidence in favour of a new third runway at Heathrow, an investigation has
found. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama has beaten rival Hillary Clinton in Wyoming's nominating contest, bouncing back from a string of losses that gave Clinton new life in their hotly contested presidential battle.
Obama's victory... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
The model of the moment, Agyness Deyn, is talking me through her outfit. “I’m
wearing men’s lace-up boots from a secondhand shop in New York, white punk
pants from Trash and Vaudeville, a Clash T-shirt, a vintage spotty shirt, a
man’s cardigan with an old brooch, a coat from a brand called Buckler, and a
leather cap I got in Tokyo,” she says in her broad Coronation Street accent.
It’s a typical Agyness ensemble – “Proper mad,” as she might say – made up
of random, inexpensive bits thrown together on the spur of the moment. She
should look like a walking jumble sale, but instead she looks like the fifth
Beatle. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 9 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
LONDON - Controversial plans to lift the worldwide ban on whaling were presented to a secret meeting of more than 70 governments in London last week.
The plans, which have alarmed environmentalists, have been welcomed by both pro-... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:30 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A late-season winter storm slammed into the Ohio Valley on Saturday, forcing flight delays and cancellations at airports before heading out toward the eastern Great Lakes and the Northeast.
Sen. Barack Obama wins the Wyoming Democratic caucuses on Saturday, 58 percent to 41 percent for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Twelve delegates are at stake in the Cowboy State. Obama has now won 13 caucuses to Clinton's three.
NEW YORK - Hillary Clinton was facing fresh questions yesterday over her private political and financial records after revelations that the presidential library of her husband is blocking the release of more than 1,000 pages of documents... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:00 pm
President Bush vetoes legislation Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics. The anti-torture measure was part of a broader bill authorizing U.S. intelligence activities.
SYDNEY - The size and composition of some Australian coins may have to change due to the soaring cost of copper and nickel.
This year the metal value of the 5c, 10c and 20c coins will overtake their face value for the first time,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica resigned on Saturday, dissolving a coalition too divided over the loss of Kosovo to carry on governing.
Kostunica said he would recommend an election in May.
His announcement... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
On Saturday, the Atlanta Hawks and the Miami Heat replayed the last 51.9 seconds of game the Hawks won in December. The NBA determined Miami's Shaquille O'Neal had been wrongly ejected with less than a minute to go.
Tensions are easing in Latin America after the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela agreed to end a border dispute after Colombian forces crossed into Ecuador to hunt down members of the FARC. One of the diplomats who negotiated an end to the confrontation, Osmar Chohfi, talks with Jacki Lyden.
Carol Barnes, a face of television news for nearly three decades, died in hospital last night after a stroke. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:31 pm
MELBOURNE - Ned Kelly's resting place has been found among bones dug up at the former Pentridge Prison site.
The breakthrough solves an 80-year-old mystery, News Limited newspapers report.
The grave site of Australia's most... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:26 pm
LONDON - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is feeling well after returning to her London home on Saturday from hospital, said a spokesman for the Baroness.
The 82-year-old Thatcher was pictured by television broadcasters... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques.
SYDNEY - Australians love their wildlife - after all, who could fail to warm to a koala, or a wombat, or a kangaroo? But few Australians know that they have the worst record on the planet for conserving their beautiful and unusual... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:30 pm
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe handed out tractors and fuel on Saturday as he courted votes ahead of elections this month, and a leading opponent urged the veteran president to end decades of misrule and retire.
Mugabe handed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm
Serbia's prime minister dissolved the government Saturday and called for new elections after clashing with his pro-Western coalition partners over Kosovo and EU membership. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 4:49 pm
Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in southern Basra, protesting deteriorating security in a city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December.
President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the West should not expect relations with Russia to be any easier under his newly elected successor, who is "no less of a Russian nationalist" than Putin. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 4:24 pm
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday echoed Israeli leaders in pursuing peace despite a deadly attack on a Jewish seminary Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 3:30 pm
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher returned home Saturday after spedning the night at a London hospital. The 82-year-old former Conservative leader had felt unwell and went in for medical checks.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent the night in a London hospital for medical checks and returned home Saturday. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 2:51 pm
The Labor Department's employment report for February added to concerns over the health of the U.S. economy. Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com outlines fallout from the jobs report.
President Bush has vetoed an intelligence policy bill over a provision that would ban harsh interrogation techniques. The president said the ban would "take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."
Two deadly attacks in the Middle East have not completely derailed peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. But the process is again on shaky ground.
As the University of North Carolina copes with the murder of Eve Carson, the school's student body president, students prepare for what is normally a spirited event: a basketball game with arch-rival Duke.
Police widen investigation after a fourth politician received a package containing acid mailed from Germany. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 2:14 pm
Larry Miller reports on the hotly contested London mayoral race threatening to unseat the controversial figure who has made everyone, including his own party, uneasy for eight years. But, Ken Livingstone hasn't been all bad.
Officials launch investigation after passenger train traveling from Athens to northern city in Greece derails, injuring 20 adults and three children. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:19 pm
A children's home on the British island of Jersey, closed in the 1980s, is now at the center of a ghastly investigation of sexual abuse -- and possibly murder. Human remains have been found and dozens of former residents have cited cases of abuse dating to the 1940s.
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador have avoided outright war over a dispute involving Colombia's FARC guerrillas. But the saber-rattling made many in the region nervous.
AP - Nearly two years after taking control of Congress, the Democrats have claimed another prize by capturing former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat a development that Republicans say is not a harbinger of things to come.
AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved new construction in a West Bank settlement outside Jerusalem, a Construction Ministry official said Sunday, just days after a Palestinian man killed eight Israelis at a religious seminary.
AP - Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
AP - Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday.
AFP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama trounced rival Hillary Clinton in Wyoming caucuses, but the two candidates continued Sunday their pitched battle for every nominating delegate.
Reuters - Spain's voters looked likely to return
the ruling Socialist Party to power on Sunday in an election
unlikely to produce an absolute majority.
AFP - The European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station.
AP - Snow plows and clean-up crews were to continue working overtime Sunday to dig out of a record-setting snow storm that buried Ohio's capital city and many parts of Ohio and Indiana.
AP - Danny Green had 18 points and top-ranked North Carolina scored the final 10 points of its 76-68 victory over No. 6 Duke on Saturday night to give the Tar Heels the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title.
Somali-born model and former James Bond girl Waris Dirie apologized Saturday for her surprise three-day disappearance, which led to a nationwide police search for her.
A suspected robber was arrested and charged with capital murder in the abduction and shooting death of an Auburn University student, police announced Saturday.
There were two competing elements in Barack Obama’s time in the Senate: his megawatt celebrity and the realities of the job he was elected to do.
A Democrat maintained a solid lead Saturday in a special election to fill former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat in a contest closely watched because of the possibility the longtime GOP district could change hands.
Thousands of Afghans demonstrated Saturday in western Afghanistan, shouting angry slogans against Denmark and the Netherlands for alleged insults against Islam.